Publishing Fund

The TUM Publishing Fund supports university members in open access publishing. If the eligibility conditions are met and if sufficient funds are available, the Publishing Fund covers the costs for the open access publication of articles.

Overview

Closure of the Publishing Fund

Funded Articles

Eligibility Conditions

Contact

Apply for the Open Access Publishing Fund

Courses

Invoicing

Closure of the Publishing Fund

The TUM Open Access Publishing Fund will be closed at the end of the year.

You can still submit funding applications until the end of November 2023. The prerequisite is that your article has already been accepted for publication by a journal. This does not affect articles for which you have already received funding approval from the Publishing Fund. Corresponding invoices can still be submitted after the closure of the Open Access Publishing Fund.

Application deadline for the Publishing Fund:
30 November 2023

Expansion of TUM’s Publish & Read Infrastructure

From 2024, TUM members will have new opportunities to publish their research results at no cost to authors. TUM is currently significantly expanding its infrastructure in the area of information provision and publication services. The TUM Board of Management, the University Library, and the TUM Schools have joined to create the financial basis for entering into extended Publish & Read agreements with major academic publishers.

Information on publication opportunities within existing agreements
Future expanded services: We will provide specific information as soon as possible here on the website.

Eligibility Conditions

The funding of your article will be decided in consultation with the schools and departments. For this reason, there may be regulations for selected schools and departments that differ from the general conditions. In principle, costs can only be covered if there are still resources available in the Publishing Fund.

General eligibility conditions

The corresponding author must be a TUM member and specify his/her affiliation according to the TUM Publication Guidelines.
Your article will be published in an open access journal, which provides free access to all articles without any subscription fee immediately after publication and ensures the quality of articles through a peer review process. A list of eligible journals can be found at the Directory of Open Access Journals.
So-called "Mirror Journals" are not eligible. "Mirror Journals" carry a similar title and have the same editorial board as the subscription journal. They are merely a different type of hybrid journal, even though they are listed in DOAJ.
The article-processing charge (APC) does not exceed 2,000 EUR net per article. Partial reimbursement is not possible. Please note, that cost details on the websites of publishers or journals usually are specified without value-added tax.
However, APCs for articles in open access journals from Wiley, Springer Nature and some other publishers are an exception to this rule. Costs are covered by central funds on the basis of contractual agreements, irrespective of the amount of the article-processing charge if the corresponding author belongs to TUM.
The author has no access to other funding to finance an open access publication.
The article should be published under the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC-BY). The University Library's handout on the publication of research data and software programs provides you an overview.

Deviating regulations for individual SCHOOLS AND DePARTMENTS

TUM School of Medicine
Articles with an APC up to 2,500 EUR net can be funded through the Publishing Fund. If the APCs are above this amount, the remaining costs must be covered by the respective institutes/clinics.
The Journal Citation Indicator (JCI) of the journal in which the article is published must be higher than 0.85. You can find the JCI of a journal in the database Journal Citation Reports. Articles in journals published by MDPI will not be funded.
TUM Campus Straubing
Articles with an APC of up to 3,360 EUR net can be funded through the Publishing Fund.
TUM School of Engineering and Design
Articles with an APC of up to 2,000 EUR net can be funded through the Publishing Fund. If the APCs are above this amount, the remaining costs must be covered by the respective chair or professorship.
For each chair or professorship a maximum of 5,000 EUR net per year is available in the Publishing Fund.
TUM School of Life Sciences
Articles with an APC of up to 2,500 EUR net can be funded through the Publishing Fund. If the APCs are above this amount, the remaining costs must be covered by the respective chair/professorship.
TUM School of Natural Sciences
There is no fixed APC funding limit. Also articles in hybrid journals (journals in which not all articles are freely accessible) can be funded.
The School decides on funding on a case-by-case basis. Due to limited funds, partial support may be provided.
TUM School of Social Sciences and Technology
There is no fixed APC funding limit. Also articles in hybrid journals (journals in which not all articles are freely accessible) can be funded.
The School decides on funding on a case-by-case basis. Due to limited funds, partial support may be provided.

Apply for the Open Access Publishing Fund

Please apply for funding only after you have confirmation from the publisher that the article has been accepted for publication. Please use our web form for this purpose:

Apply for funding

Funding is possible if your publication project complies with the eligibility conditions and if sufficient funds are available. Funding will be decided in consultation with the schools and departments.

TUM receives special conditions for open access publications from selected publishers and scientific organisations. Please note these conditions when submitting your articles.

Special conditions through Agreements, memberships and initiatives

TUM has entered into contractual agreements with selected publishers and scientific organisations for special conditions. If you want to publish your article with one of the following institutions, please note the respective instructions.

Publisher Discounts

TUM receives special discounts on article-processing charges from the following publishers. Therefore, please specify your affiliation with TUM when submitting your article.

PLoS ONE
The storage of your research data on mediaTUM meet the requirements of PLoS.
Frontiers
From 01.01.2022 10% discont..
MDPI
10% discount
Copernicus
Tayor & Francis (10% discount)

Invoicing

The university library pays the publisher’s invoice. Would you please specify the following address for the invoice to the publisher, when the TUM has open access arrangement with the respective publisher:

Technical University of Munich (TUM)
University Library
Arcisstrasse 21
80333 München
Germany

Invoices, which are directed to the author or the chair, cannot be refunded.

The invoice should indicate the TUM's value-added tax (VAT) number DE 811193231 and must not contain VAT. In addition, it should also contain the publisher's bank account.

Funded Articles

The following dataset demonstrates, where the funded articles have been published, and which costs has been caused thereby.

Contact

General Questions

General questions about open access and queries about publication projects for open access should be addressed to:
open-access@ub.tum.de

Publishing Fund

To register an article for open access funding at the TUM, please use our funding application form.

mediaTUM

If you plan to publish your article on mediaTUM, please contact us under:
mediatum@ub.tum.de

Courses on Publishing Fund

Open Access Consultations

You would like to boost the visibility of your scientific work? We are happy to advise you individually on questions relating to open access.

Course Description & Dates

Routes to Publishing

Publication Process, Open Access, Authors' Rights

All you want to know about scientific publishing is offered you in this compact course.

Course Description & Dates

Predatory Journals and Conference

Who can be trusted?

Presentations at renowned conferences and publications in recognized journals are the currency of science. For you as a scientist it is important to make your research visible and to publish your findings. This is what dubious organizers and publishers try to exploit with fraudulent publication offers. In this course you will learn how to identify and avoid dubious offers.

Course Description & Dates